Word: oldoway
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Professor Reck found the skeleton in a district of Tanganyika Territory (then German East Africa) called Oldoway (pronounced Oldo-wah-ee) or "place of fossils." It is the complete fossilized skeleton of a grown man lying on his right side, with his knees drawn up to his chin and his arms folded. Professor Reck found it high up the side of a gorge where he had found the fossilized bones of extinct animals...
Professor Reck took the Oldoway man home to Berlin where he examined the find in detail. Oldoway stood 5 ft. 10½ in. He had long legs and a long narrow head. His nose was big, his upper lip long, his jaw and chin massive. He looked like many a Hamite still to be seen in Northeastern Africa. To Professor Reck, Oldoway's lower teeth seemed filed to points, a fashion current among certain living African tribes...